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Uri Avnery

Zehava Galon (R), MK Dov Khenin, Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh, senior Palestinian official Nabil Shaath and Meretz party leader Tamar Zandberg attend the funeral service of late writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement Uri Avnery in Tel Aviv on August 22, 2018. (Flash90)
August 22, 2018, 11:05 pm
Israelis, Palestinians pay respects to late peace activist Uri Avnery
Memorial of prominent advocate of two-state solution attended by Abbas adviser, opposition leaders
By AP and ToI Staff
SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum (l) and PepsiCo’s CEO Ramon Laguarta at the SodaStream factory in Israel’s Negev Desert next to the city of Rahat on August 20, 2018. (Eliran Avital)
August 21, 2018, 3:04 pm
Fizz fizz, flop flop: 9 things to know for August 21
PepsiCo’s purchase of Sodastream has pundits bubbling; the left and Abbas mourn Uri Avnery and regional peace; and jaundiced eyes are cast on Corbyn and Iran’s latest fighter jet
By Joshua Davidovich
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) and Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery at the PA headquarters in Ramallah on January 5, 2017. (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)
August 20, 2018, 7:52 pm
Palestinian leader mourns passing of peace activist Uri Avnery
‘He will remain an icon of real and permanent peace,’ PA President Mahmoud Abbas tells close friend of former MK, who was first prominent Israeli to meet Arafat publicly
By Adam Rasgon and AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets US National Security Adviser John Bolton at the PM's official residence in Jerusalem, August 19, 2018. (Haim Tzach/GPO)
August 20, 2018, 11:21 am
Iran on the menu: 7 things to know for August 20
John Bolton and Netanyahu discuss Iran, though a plan to divorce Hezbollah from Tehran may be as half-baked as the drug-addled responses that left a girl dead in an outdoor rave
By Joshua Davidovich
Uri Avnery seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in 2014 (FLASH90)
August 20, 2018, 9:35 am
Trailblazing peace activist, writer, and former MK Uri Avnery dies at 94
Left-wing leaders eulogize activist, who was one of Israel’s strongest peace proponents for decades, and is believed to have been the first to champion Palestinian statehood
By ToI Staff and AP
Palestinian Authority President poses for a photograph with an Israeli peace activist at the PA headquarters in Ramallah on January 5, 2017. (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)
January 5, 2017, 11:59 pm
Abbas to Israelis: Peace will ultimately come through dialogue, not UN
In meeting with hundreds of activists and academics in Ramallah, PA president rails at critics of resolution on settlements
By Dov Lieber
Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on September 7, 2015. (AP/Charlie Neibergall, File)
January 1, 2016, 4:35 am
New Clinton emails reveal critiques from Israel-bashing son of adviser
Sidney Blumenthal’s input to secretary included materials by his son Max, a self-described anti-Zionist who wrote a volume seen as the ‘I hate Israel’ handbook
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
The Marianne of Gothenburg, a Swedish-flagged trawler leading a flotilla of boats sailing for the Gaza Strip, June 2015. (YouTube/Ship to Gaza Sweden)
June 28, 2015, 7:35 pm
Israel vows to prevent flotilla from reaching Gaza
As experts ponder lessons from 2010’s botched raid on the Mavi Marmara, Jerusalem insists its naval blockade of the Strip is legal
By Raphael Ahren and Mitch Ginsburg
Former MK Mohammad Barakeh (right) and lawmaker Masoud Ganaim, pictured in April, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 11, 2015, 12:38 am
Court overturns conviction of ex-MK for 2006 altercation
Former Hadash party leader Mohammad Barakeh exonerated from assaulting right-wing activist at protest against Second Lebanon War
By ToI Staff
Former MK Mohammad Barakeh (right) and lawmaker Masoud Ganaim, pictured in April, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 23, 2014, 2:07 pm
MK Mohammad Barakeh convicted for 2006 altercation
Hadash party leader found guilty of attacking a right-wing activist during demonstration against Second Lebanon War
By ToI Staff
Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael B. Oren speaks in Tel Aviv on December 16, 2013. (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)
February 26, 2014, 6:25 am
If peace talks fail: Michael Oren’s Plan B
Reopen the option of unilaterally withdrawing from the West Bank, former envoy to US urges, lest we ‘outsource our fundamental destiny to Palestinian decision making’
By Raphael Ahren
November 8, 2013, 2:44 pm
‘Israel is a murderous country par excellence’
Official PA daily accuses Israel of putting Yasser Arafat’s life in peril even before actively executing him
By Elhanan Miller
Uri Avnery in his home in Tel Aviv, earlier this month (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)
September 19, 2013, 6:17 am
At 90, Uri Avnery is still lobbying for peace
Activist and former MK was perhaps the first prominent Israeli to promote a Palestinian state. Today, he has low expectations
By Karin Laub
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